Minority Seminar 2019: Writing In, Writing Out – Historicizing Agency, Mobility and Positionality
The annual seminar of the Åbo Akademi University minority research profile will explore histories and historiographies of minority positions. It will trace practices of exclusion and inclusion, agency and mobility through archives and the materialities of class, race, body, gender and religion. How, what and whose stories are being told and untold – and by whom? How can they be told otherwise?
REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR (DEADLINE 11 APRIL 2019):
SEMINAR PROGRAM 25.4.2019
Place: Stora auditoriet, ASA-building, Åbo Akademi University, Fänriksgatan 3, Åbo/Turku.
9:30–10 Registration and coffee
10:00–10:15 Opening of seminar
10:15–11 Milinda Banerjee (LMU Munich), Minority Questions, Subaltern Fragments, and Political Theologies: Eastern Indian Optics on Community and Class
Short break
11:05–11:50 Mona Oraby (Amherst College), Regulating Difference: Religion, Bureaucracy, and the Law
Lunch
13:00–13:45 Dorottya Szikra (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Inclusionary and Exclusionary Processes in Pre-war Hungarian Family Policies: Ethnicity and Class Revisited
13:50–14:35 Daniel Blackie (University of Oulu), Disability and Identity in Victorian Britain
Coffee break
14:50–15:35 Miika Tervonen (University of Helsinki), Whitewashed History? Minorities and National Gaze in Finnish Historiography
15:40–16:25 Gunlög Fur (Linnaeus University), Challenging Agency and Masculinity? Indigenous People and National Historiography
Closing of seminar